Tuesday, 25 September 2012
Sales Children’s/YA—Scholastic has licensed German-language rights in Button Boy (Rebecca Young & Sue deGennaro); and the dramatic rights in the following picture books: The Very Cranky Bear, The Very Itchy Bear, The...

Monday, 24 September 2012
Robert G Barrett, contemporary Australian writer best known for his ‘Les Norton’ crime novels and his first book, a collection of short stories entitled You Wouldn’t Be Dead for Quids...

Wednesday, 19 September 2012
Campion Education’s ebookstore Read Without Paper is no longer operating. A statement on the Read Without Paper website said ‘as of September 1, 2012, the Read Without Paper website has...

Wednesday, 19 September 2012
Attendees at the Australian Publishers Association (APA) futurEDUCATION symposium earlier this month were told that the Federal Government’s reform of the Australian education system, based on the recent Gonski Review, will...

Wednesday, 19 September 2012
Julie Helean has won the $10,000 Katherine Mansfield Award for a short story, judged by Elizabeth Smither. The Prize was announced in Wellington on 18 September alongside three other Bank of...

Wednesday, 19 September 2012
The Paper Plus Group, parent company of New Zealand bookselling chain Paper Plus, was in the running to buy the Whitcoulls business from the administrators of REDgroup Retail last year,...

Tuesday, 18 September 2012
Education supplier Campion Education has confirmed to Bookseller+Publisher that it has purchased some assets, including stock, from Education Works’ Wooldridges retail business. Campion managing director James Cathro said, however, that...

Tuesday, 18 September 2012
Single mother Collette McVeigh is a Republican living in Belfast with her mother and hardliner IRA brothers. When she is arrested for her part in an aborted IRA bomb plot...

Tuesday, 18 September 2012
Sales Fiction—Random House Australia has sold Ghost Child and I Came to Say Goodbye (Caroline Overington) to the UK; The Secret Lives of Emma: Beginnings (Natasha Walker) to Poland and...

Tuesday, 18 September 2012
George and Harold go back in time to the carefree days of kindergarten to face a sixth-grade bully in Dav Pilkey’s Captain Underpants and the Terrifying Return of Tippy Tinkletrousers (Scholastic)....

Thursday, 13 September 2012
The shortlist for this year’s Colin Roderick Award has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: The Sons of Clovis: Ern Malley, Adoré Floupette and a secret history of Australian poetry...

Wednesday, 12 September 2012
The Brisbane Writers Festival (BWF) ran from 5-9 September, following the presentation of the Queensland Literary Awards. The festival included an ‘all night party’ to celebrate the festival’s 50th birthday. This year’s festival was the...

Wednesday, 12 September 2012
Sydney-based book networking website The Reading Room is preparing to launch an ebook retail platform. Owner and founder Kim Anderson told Bookseller+Publisher that the company’s ebook platform will have two...

Wednesday, 12 September 2012
A new Australian ebook retail platform for authors and publishers has been launched. Bkclb has been developed by author and designer Connor Tomas O’Brien and developer Fred Fan. The platform...

Tuesday, 11 September 2012
A spokesperson for Dymocks has confirmed that the bookselling chain is exiting the New Zealand market with the sale of its last New Zealand store in the Auckland suburb of...